"I have adventured to dedicate these few discordant tunes, to be censured by the ingenius disposition of your Lordship's Honorable rare perfection, composed by me and others...I will not trouble your Lordship with to tedius circumstances, only I humbly intreat your Lordship (in the name of many) to patronage this work with no less acceptance, then I with a willing and kind heart dedicate it."- Dedication to The Triumphes of Oriana